Re: how to reset all the folder redirection setting?

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:26:01 +0100

Hello Roy,
The best thing to do is actually change the current GPO with the folder
redirection or create a new GPO with the follow Folder Redirection Settings,
Under Target Folder Location, click Redirect to the local user profile
location, and then click OK

The location of the redirected folders are stored in the registry and can be
changed as well manually.
Registry Settings for Folder Redirection in Windows:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q242557/

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"Roy T" <RoyT@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelandet 
news:8613D705-1BF3-4B25-97C8-979FA5EC14D1@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I got two questions here, hope someone can give me a hand here.
>
> Question 1,
>
> On our Win2K advanced server, we got a folder redirection group policy
> setup, all the "My Documents" folders are redirected to a different 
> location.
> e.g \\Document server\users\%username%\My Documents\.  The removal policy
> setting is to "Redirect the folder back to the local userprofile location
> when policy is removed."  I tried to test it, by removing the group 
> policy.
> It doesn't seems to be working, because all the "My Documents" folder 
> remain
> at where ever they are.  I thought Windows should move the directory back 
> to
> the C:\documents and settings\%username%\.  I tried to login as the user, 
> but
> the user profile still doesn't change, the still looking at the old 
> location.
> I tried to create a new user and obviously the folder redirection is no
> longer apply, because "My documents" is setting under C:\Documents and
> settings\.  So i am sure there no more folder redirection policy.
>
> Question 2,
> I got a folder redirection group policy setup for all the "My Documents" 
> and
> "Application Data" directories on our Win2k terminal server, The "policy
> removal" is set to "Leave the folder in the new location when policy is
> removed".  There are many user profile created after the policy was 
> applied.
> Now we tried to change thing back.  The reason for the redirection was we
> tried to avoid user save their files onto the C: (system) drive as it 
> might
> run out of space.  According to the article
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q214636/
> we can change the location of all the userprofile.  We would like to do
> that, but there is one problem, we also want to merge the "My Documents" 
> and
> "Application  Data" back to the userprofile, rather than let it sitting
> somewhere. I tried to remove the group policy, but it didn't work, all the
> existing userprofile are still looking at the redireted Folder location,
> even though i copy all the "My Documents" and "Application data" back to 
> the
> userprofiles, but still the same.  The only way i can do it is, delete the
> user profile and let windows create one when the user login again, then i 
> can
> copy and paste the data back.  But it is too much work if you got many 
> user
> profiles and you don't know when is the next time the user login.
>
> What can i do?  What is the best approach?
> Many Thanks and Happy New Year!!! 

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